Box Art and Disc Details For Star Trek: TNG Season 1 Blu-ray

This afternoon CBS provided TrekMovie with the scoop on their upcoming season one release of Star Trek: The Next Generation on Blu-ray, due July 24th. See below for the official box art, and full disc by disc details on what you can expect for this major release.

Box art and details on Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 Blu-ray

Just in time for the 25th anniversary of the series, TNG is getting a brand new look in HD. The set also features brand new special features, interviews, archival footage and a gag reel. The new material also features Star Trek experts Mike and Denise Okuda, consultants throughout this ongoing project, who offer special insights into the countless man-hours dedicated to the upgrade of The Next Generation.

Box Art:

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Set Details

The STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION – THE FIRST SEASON Blu-ray set will be available in 1080p with English 7.1 DTS-HD Master Audio, English Stereo Surround, French Mono, Japanese Mono and German Mono (with the exception of “Encounter at Farpoint” which is in German Stereo). The discs also include English SDH, French, German, Castilian, Italian, Japanese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish subtitles. The Blu-ray is not rated in the U.S. and rated PG in Canada.

The disc breakdown is as follows:

Disc One:Episodes• Encounter at Farpoint
• The Naked Now
• Code of Honor

Special Features• Episodic Promos
• Energized! Taking The Next Generation to the Next Level (HD)
• Star Trek: The Next Generation Archives: The Launch
o Introduction to the Series (1987)
o Promo #1
o Promo #2
o Promo #3
o Season One Promo

Disc Two:Episodes
• The Last Outpost
• Where No One Has Gone Before
• Lonely Among Us
• Justice
• The Battle

No Brazilian Portuguese? That is sad news for Brazilian fans… It seems Paramount will save on authoring by making one single version of the discs for all major markets (as they did with the sampler). If that’s really so, we won’t see this in Brazil anytime soon. Sad.

@2 – That’s my price point as well (meaning MSRP can be more than $40, I just don’t want to pay more than $40 on Amazon or whereever I can get it the cheapest). I certainly hope they don’t price these the same as they did TOS on Blu-ray!

Mind you. I think I’m confusing DS9 which had easter eggs. I’m thinking more of those extra extra features that ended up on Best Buy discs, then compiled together as another disc on that green complete TNG 20.

@12 – I’ve seen rough versions of the gag reel for Season 1 at Conventions and it’s not that great – although there’s a bit I quite enjoy…Brent Spiner looking at the NCC-1701-D plaque on the bridge and saying (in his best Jimmy Stewart impression) “Well look…they built this thing in Bedford Falls!”

#31 — Depending on how your Blu-ray player is setup you may not get any audio fom the PiP window. The player has to be set to decode all audio internally, if a person uses the player default of bitstreaming, you lose the secondary audio. So it has fallen into disuse since it has mostly just confused consumers and requires extra setup.

Textual and static image commentaries are of course super easy to do, so I agree with ya there I’m a little bit surprised that there isn’t some sort of nice LCARS interface that can be popped-up with informtion.

#37 — And very few end users actually use the PiP features.
Also newer PS3’s can bitstream HD audio (1st gen couldn’t and so by default PiP works), so the issue still exist for pretty much any and all players out there now.

You’ll notice most Paramount home video titles do not have PiP features. Universal and some Fox titles are the only home video publishers that use PiP regularly.

So I’m not surprised PiP was skipped for the TNG release given that it’s published by Paramount Home Video.

@22: Probably not very well — the blue screened muppet popping out of the guy’s chest doesn’t look all that great in SD, let alone bluray.
Unless they redid it with CGI so it can terrify me all over again as a (semi) grownup…

I’ve enjoyed the sampler so I will be getting this. My young brother never liked Star Trek but i got him hooked through the TNG DVDs. So he will be excited to watch these on his big screen tv after I have had a chance to view them of course :P